Margaret Junkin Preston Quotes:

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

source: - Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903). “The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston”

Topics: Husband, War, Heart

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

source: - Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260

Topics: Pain, Past

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

source: - Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

Topics: Sweet, Lying, Pie, Christian Thanksgiving, Melons

The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.

source: - Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.94

Topics: Lotuses, Tides

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

Topics: Mother, Nature, Lying